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Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chinese Ceramics & Jade Carvings written by Parke-Bernet Galleries and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Holmes Foundation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Chinese Ceramics & Jades, Persian Pottery, Egyptian Antiquities, Gothic & Renaissance Art, French Furniture of the XVIII Century and the Empire and Other Art Property written by Holmes Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene Law
Publisher : 五洲传播出版社
ISBN 13 : 9787508504292
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Intercontinental's Best of China written by Eugene Law and published by 五洲传播出版社. This book was released on 2004 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written mostly by native English speakers who are long-term China residents, and edited by people who live and work in China, this book leads a fresh perspective on all things Chinese. It melds foreign and local perspectives into a seamless narrative that allows new light to be cast on China's cities." -- BACK COVER.
Author : Peter F. Stone
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462911846
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Oriental Rugs written by Peter F. Stone and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental reference work--long awaited by collectors and scholars--fills an important gap in the available literature on oriental rugs. Lavishly illustrated with over 1000 photographs and drawings, it offers clear and precise definitions for the rug and textile terms in use across a broad swath of the globe--from Morocco to Turkey, Persia, the Caucasus region, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and China. Covering priceless museum-quality rug traditions as well as modern centers of production, Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins draws on classical scholarship as well as current terminology in use among producers and traders in these areas today. It focuses primarily on the rich hand-knotting and hand-weaving traditions of the Near East and Central Asia, but also includes some examples of Scandinavian and Native American weavings. Oriental rugs are receiving ever-increasing attention and recognition in the field of art history. Tribal weavings especially have become a focus for new research, and Oriental Rugs provides a new understanding of many distinctive traditions that were previously understudied, such as the weavings of southwest Persia, Baluchistan and Kurdistan. This concise oriental rug reference book is a must-have for scholars and anyone serious about collecting rugs, selling rugs or the rug trade in general. Additional reference information also includes: Foreign terms Place names The Oriental Rug lexicon Museums with notable rug collections Oriental rug internet sites
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Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book ARTnews written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Jacobsen
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462904157
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Oriental Rugs a Complete Guide written by Charles Jacobsen and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative reference contains a vast amount of information about Oriental rugs. Oriental Rugs: A Complete Guide is the first large volume on the subject to be printed in the past forty-five years is meant for the individual who is interested in purchasing his first Oriental Rug, as well as the collector, museum, and rug importer. The volume is divided into three main parts. Part I, entitled "General Discussion devotes one chapter to each of the large rug weaving countries and includes helpful hints as to what the rug buyer should look for in an particular rug. Part II, "Description of Types," is an alphabetical list of all the names that have been used to identify rugs in the past, as well as the names that are being used at present. Each entry is followed by a full discussion and description of the rug. Part III, “Plates,” contains 194 pictures of different types of rugs, complete with descriptive captions for each. Thirty-nine of the plates are in full color. All of the plates are large, allowing the reader to see the design, and in some cases, the colors used in the particular rug.
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Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Art Gallery written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hazel H. Gorham
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462903851
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Japanese & Oriental Ceramic written by Hazel H. Gorham and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese and Oriental Ceramics was first published in print form by Tuttle Publishing in 1971. This comprehensive and profusely illustrated work tells how to distinguish Japanese porcelains from Chinese, and how to recognize modern reproductions of genuine old wares. It is completely indexed, contains a lengthy bibliography, and lists Chinese dates important in any discussion of Oriental ceramics. Crammed with information on the history, esthetics, and technical aspects of the ceramics of Japan and the Orient, the book is an invaluable guide to scholars, collectors and dealers. It is in fact a work of art in itself.
Author : Rachel Polonsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429974907
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Molotov's Magic Lantern written by Rachel Polonsky and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was the ruthless apparatchik Vyacheslav Molotov, a henchman for Stalin who was a participant in the collectivizations and the Great Purge—and also an ardent bibliophile. In what was formerly Molotov's apartment, Polonsky uncovers an extensive library and an old magic lantern—two things that lead her on an extraordinary journey throughout Russia and ultimately renew her vision of the country and its people. In Molotov's Magic Lantern, Polonsky visits the haunted cities and vivid landscapes of the books from Molotov's library: works by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Akhmatova, and others, some of whom were sent to the Gulag by the very man who collected their books. With exceptional insight and beautiful prose, Polonsky writes about the longings and aspirations of these Russian writers and others in the course of her travels from the Arctic to Siberia and from the forests around Moscow to the vast steppes. A singular homage to Russian history and culture, Molotov's Magic Lantern evokes the spirit of the great artists and the haunted past of a country ravaged by war, famine, and totalitarianism.
Author : Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee
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Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Prime Antiques and Their Current Prices written by Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael St. Clair
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611479118
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Great Chinese Art Transfer written by Michael St. Clair and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal chaos allowed imperial and private Chinese collections to be scattered, looted and sold. A remarkable and varied group of Westerners entered the country, had their eyes opened to centuries of Chinese creativity and gathered up paintings, bronzes and ceramics, as well as sculptures, jades and bronzes. The migration to America and Europe of China’s art is one of the greatest outflows of a culture’s artistic heritage in human history. A good deal of the art procured by collectors and dealers, some famous and others little known but all remarkable in individual ways, eventually wound up in American and European museums. Today some of the art still in private hands is returning to China via international auctions and aggressive purchases by Chinese millionaires.
Author : Victoria Hartmann
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398464562
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)
Download or read book My Parents' Daughter written by Victoria Hartmann and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mob bullying of an accomplished and expert senior secondary English teacher and Co-ordinator in a Victorian state school in Australia is re-told in My Parents’ Daughter giving a vivid insight into the hellish world of its victim. This first part of Victoria Hartmann’s Memoir is about workplace bullying by her four male principals, plus others, in the new millennium. This otherwise dark theme is re-told with good humour. Victoria’s intention is for her reader to laugh a lot outwardly but be moved inwardly to further discussions about this sinister blight on our democracies; perhaps even be moved to action and further the cause. It shows how Victoria’s employer – the Department of Education, plus associated bodies, dealt with Victoria’s injuries and complaints. It questions accountability and equity or rather the lack there of. This memoir tackles head on psychological bullying and spot lights the notion that authority does not equate to honesty thus our need for external checks on governmental power brokers. The memoir’s intention is to enlighten and demands justice and change leading to prevention. It is a courageous effort by a courageous woman who owes everything to her genetics and upbringing. Please note that all names are fictitious but the content word for word true.
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Magazine Antiques written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vimalin Rujivacharakul
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611490065
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Collecting China written by Vimalin Rujivacharakul and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Collecting China grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore this question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections to critical reinterpretations of historical writings.
Author : Audrey Ronning Topping
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080715279X
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book China Mission written by Audrey Ronning Topping and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Reverend Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the interior of China, they could not have foreseen the ways in which that decision would ripple across generations of the Ronning family. Halvor and Hannah would marry, and their son Chester, born in Hubei Province in 1894, would spend over half his life in China as a student, teacher, and a Canadian diplomat. Chester's daughter, Audrey, studied at Nanking University during the Chinese Civil War and later spent decades reporting on the People's Republic of China for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and many other publications. "During the last century," Audrey Topping notes, "a member of our family was there for almost every event of importance." China Mission presents a personal history of her family's ties to their adopted home and the momentous events that radically changed one of the most powerful countries in the world. The Ronnings found Imperial China at the end of the nineteenth century to be a nation on the cusp of change, and they were swept up as both observers and participants in these dramatic events. During their years as missionaries, the Ronnings witnessed the Boxer Uprising in 1898, the subsequent Palace Coup and the Siege of Peking, the death of the last emperor, and the collapse of China's dynasty system. They also endured personal challenges -- famine, births, deaths, and the almost constant threat of attack -- that were countered with songs, celebrations, friendship, and a deep appreciation for the culture of which they had become a part. Later, Chester Ronning would return to China, as would his daughter Audrey, bringing their family's story to the end of the twentieth century. This extraordinary account, compiled from the diaries, letters, and photographs of three generations, offers modern readers a rare and remarkable look at a world long gone.
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Total Pages : 736 pages
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Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1976-09 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400017394
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Download or read book Beijing written by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on accommodations, restaurants, cultural sites, shopping, and nightlife in Beijing.
